Blessings

Have you ever taken time to think about your daily blessings, or ways the Lord has blessed your life all throughout the day. If you haven't, you should take a second to think about it. Just try it for a few days and you will be amazed at how much the Lord is in your life.
 Today I was thinking about the past year and counting my blessings. I was thinking about tender mercies of the Lord and how this year has played out. When I wrote my New Years resolutions on January 5, 2014 I didn't know I was having twins yet. It's funny to read my resolutions and what I THOUGHT was going to happen over the year.

So anyways, I was counting my blessings and thinking about how amazing God is in blessing me with exactly what I need and what fits me personally. It's like getting a gift from a person who knows you so well that you are so amazed by getting something that is just perfect for you. That is how blessings from the Lord are. Situations in my life aren't perfect or always ideal but I still receive blessings that help in those situations and when I look back it's cool to see how perfect those blessings were. Like for example, all through nursing school and then when I received my degree I never planned on actually working as a nurse. I figured I would work while Marshall was in school until we had James and then be a full time mom. I was happy to check "college degree" off my list but didn't think I would actually do more than that. Certain situations in life have changed that and now I've been a nurse for almost ten years (Wowza!) and worked nine of those. When Marshall lost his job five years ago I went back to work full time and supported our family financially. Now I've been able to get health benefits for our family through working. It's not ideal but it's a huge blessing since I have medically needy kids. 

I've been writing down my resolutions for 2015. It's fun to write down what I hope to happen and then at the end of the year it will be fun to read them after all is said and done. I have my personal resolutions but it is also fun to include my kids.

I hope I can teach James a few songs on the piano this year.

Lynnlee is beginning to read and I hope I can teach her to have a love for books and to read a lot.

I want to teach Kaden how to ride a scooter and balance bike, once it's warm. For now I want to work with him on preschool stuff: counting to 20, colors, shapes, abcs.

The minis will have an exciting year of milestones and I want to teach them how to sit up, crawl, and walk.

After I thought about all my blessings this morning I decided to take a picture of each of my biggest blessings. So I took a picture of each of my children on the spot with whatever they were doing this morning. I hope you enjoy the pictures (above).